Chief Justice John Roberts has been drawn into President Donald Trump’s web.
Last week the president criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, calling it “a lawless disgrace.”
The New York Times writes, “Trump’s remarks came after a federal trial judge ordered the administration to resume accepting asylum claims from migrants no matter where or how they entered the United States.”
The judge issuing the ruling was Jon S. Tigar, of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, whom Trump quickly singled out as an “Obama judge.”
This prompted a rare pushback from Roberts, who said in a statement:
Last week the president criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, calling it “a lawless disgrace.”
The New York Times writes, “Trump’s remarks came after a federal trial judge ordered the administration to resume accepting asylum claims from migrants no matter where or how they entered the United States.”
The judge issuing the ruling was Jon S. Tigar, of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, whom Trump quickly singled out as an “Obama judge.”
This prompted a rare pushback from Roberts, who said in a statement:
We do not have Obama judges, or Trump judges, Bush judges, or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. The independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.
The problem, as the president correctly sees it, is that the judiciary in too many cases appears to have become independent of the Constitution, making laws and reading liberal policies into the document that are not there.
If all judges thought the same, as Roberts seems to suggest, why are there so many 5-4 rulings by the high court?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/27/frequent-5-4-supreme-court-rulings-belie-chief-justice-roberts-argument-justices-are-unbiased/
If all judges thought the same, as Roberts seems to suggest, why are there so many 5-4 rulings by the high court?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/27/frequent-5-4-supreme-court-rulings-belie-chief-justice-roberts-argument-justices-are-unbiased/